Dr Christopher Horrocks
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Critical and Historical Studies
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Associate Professor and Reader
- Email:
- c.horrocks@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a writer and lecturer, and I teach Critical and Historical Studies across BA studio courses and MAs in the School. I also supervise students researching at PhD level via dissertation, practice, and publication.
I practised Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art and gained an MA in Cultural History at the Royal College of Art. I've written widely on cultural theory, art and technology, and am known for my research on Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault and Marshall McLuhan. I have also written on the art of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp and lectured internationally on aspects of Japanese and Chinese contemporary art and technology. I have been involved with hijack production company in arts documentary production, museum multi-media displays and app design (the James Watt workshop at Science Museum, London, and a NESTA-funded project on Eduardo Paolozzi's preserved studio).
My recent publications include Cultures of Colour, 2012; Genteel Perversion: The Films of Gilbert & George (2014); The Joy of Sets: A Short History of the Television (2018) and a chapter 'Marshall McLuhan and New Media Art ' in The Encyclopedia of New Media Art Volume 1: History & Theory (ed. Charlie Gere, forthcoming 2024). I am currently researching a book on technology and science-fiction.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
- MA (RCA) Cultural History
- PhD
Domains
Courses taught
My research is in cultural theory and visual culture. I am interested in providing new ways of conveying theoretical content to new audiences, using emergent technology and print-based media.
Publications
The joy of sets : a short history of the television
Horrocks, Christopher (2018). (Reaktion Books)
Genteel perversion : the films of Gilbert and George
Horrocks, Chris (2014). Chicago, U.S.: (Solar Books)
Cultures of Colour: visual, material, textual
Horrocks, Christopher (2012). (Berghahn Books)
Introducing Foucault: a graphic guide
Horrocks, Chris and Jevtic, Zoran (2009). London: (Icon Books)
Marshall McLuhan and virtuality
Horrocks, Christopher (2000). Cambridge, UK.: (Icon Books)
Notes on Jean Baudrillard and critical theory
Horrocks, Chris, 2020, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory (4), 1, pp 157-179
Disinterring the present : science fiction, media technology and the ends of the archive
Horrocks, Christopher, 2013, Journal of Visual Culture (12), 3, pp 414-430
Press "Escape": the sad case of the death and virtual life of the Korean IT worker
Horrocks, Christopher, 2010, Kiosk, 4, pp 58-63
Was is das? Das ist der kultur-kompressor!
Horrocks, Chris, 2009, KIOSK, 3, pp 20-26
Andy Warhol and the strategic exile of the self
Horrocks, Chris (2004). In: Everett, Wendy, (eds.) and Wagstaff, Peter, (eds.), Cultures of exile: images of displacement. New York: Berghahn Books, pp 137-152
Marshall McLuhan and virtuality
Horrocks, Christopher (2003). In: Appignanesi, Richard, (ed.), The end of everything: postmodernism and the vanishing of the human. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books, pp 189-237
'Real Japanese men play crazy rock 'n roll': the gorgerous phenomenon
Horrocks, Chris (2002). In: Horrocks, Chris, (ed.), Tokyoglamrock: the work of Matsukage and Ujino. London: iMMprint, pp 52-99
You want to see? Well, take a look at this! Ethical vision, disembodiment and light in Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnés
Horrocks, Chris (2000). In: Lloyd, Fran, (eds.) and O'Brien, Catherine, (eds.), Secret spaces, forbidden places: rethinking culture. Oxford, U.K.: Berghahn Books, pp 201-215
Playing the game when the rules have been changed: the paintings of Bruce Russell
Horrocks, Christopher (1999). In: Russell, Bruce, (ed.), Bruce Russell GMT: glyphs, morphs and tropes. London, U.K.: Art Books International, pp 5-25
The sacralisation of sight: Brian McCann's 'Dusting the giant'
Horrocks, Chris (1999). Dusting the Giant. London, U.K.: Pale Green Press, pp 20-25
The future is tomorrow
Davis, Lennard J., Horrocks, Chris and Watson, Ben(2009). In: The Future is Tomorrow, 21 Nov 2009 :London, U.K.
The art of intervention: Kingston University responses: Japanese mob
Barber, Stephen, Davies, Rachel, Horrocks, Chris, Mancke, Carol and Maude-Roxby, Alice(2009). In: The art of intervention: critical perspectives on the intersections of private and public memory, 14 Feb 2009 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
The lure of the East: British Orientalist painting
Horrocks, Christopher and Riding, Christine (2008).
Techno-theory : critiques of culture and technological being
Horrocks, C. W. (2011), PhD thesis, Kingston University